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FARE REGISTER AND RECORDER.

EEPECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,720, datedSeptember 22, 1885.

Application filed September 1, 1883. (Model) To all whom it may concern:and its objects generally are to throw more Be it known that I, JosErr-rGOREETT, of checks and safeguards around the conductor the city, county,and State of New York, have or collector than has heretofore been thecase,

invented certain new and useful Improvements and to provide a moreefficient machine as a in Registers, of which thefollowingisaspecimonitor upon his honesty, and thereby infication.crease the receipts of the road using the ma- My present inventionrelates more particuchine.

larly to registers employed for counting or The specific objects of myimprovements tallying the fares received by conductors or and many oftheir advantages will sufficiently [O collectors on passenger cars orvehicles. Such appear in the course of the following descrip- 6omachines, as is well known, are provided for tion of my improvements,and need not be the use of the conductor, and the rules of the herepremised. The subject-matter claimed company or owners of the cars orvehicles by me herein is also particularly pointed out require that aseach fare is received the conat the close of this specification. I willpre 15 ductor or collector must operate the register mise, however, thatmy improvements are to record or tally it; and to compel the con manyand varied, and not confined in their ductor to operate the machine foreach fare as use to registering-machines for fare-registerit isreceived, so that a correct record or tally ing purposes. Some of mysaidimprovements may be kept, the machine is provided with may be usedwithout the others, and in ma- 20 an alarm, which forms part of themachine chines differingin construction from that hereand is connectedwith the registering devices. in particularly described. So, also, inmany Upon the receipt of a fare and an actuation instances the detailsof construction are imof the machine the alarm is sounded, and untilmaterial, as they can be modified without desuch alarm is sounded thepassengers or whoparting from my invention. Many of my im- 25 ever maybe in the car or vehicle know that provements, also, may advantageouslybe used the conductor has not registered the fare he in registeringmachineryfordifferentpurposes. may have received, and consequently hasnot The machine about to be described as emproperly performed his duty,and thus his bodying my improvements is organized with dereliction ordishonesty is apparent and is a special reference to registering fareson pas- 0 soon brought to the attention of his employer, senger cars orvehicles; and it belongs to the and thus the company or owner of the caror duplex type of machines-that is, to machines vehicle is enabled todischarge the dishonest having more than one set of registeringmechemploy and secure the services of another, anism simultaneouslyoperated in registering who will properly and honestly account fororrecording the fares. In thepresent machine 5 the moneys or faresreceived by him in the there are three sets of devices or groups ofdischarge of his trust. mechanism for registering or recording, all Themachine is a check upon any conductor practically simultaneouslyoperated by the or collector who may be employed. same prime mover oractuator in operating or By the employment of these machines, ifactuating the machine, and all of them register o the type of machine isa good one, the fear of the consecutive fares, and at the same time forcertain detection compels the conductor to be each actuation of theregisters an alarm, which honest in many cases where he would otherformspart of the machine, is sounded to notify wise be dishonest, and shouldhe be dishonest those in the car or vehicle that a fare has been exposesthe dishonesty which may he attempt properly tallied. 5 ed; consequentlya much larger revenue is de The first of these registering mechanisms is5 rived by the road or owners of the vehicle, a register for registeringconsecutively the and dishonesty and fraud prevented or exfares asreceived on each trip or partial trip of posed. the car or vehicle, itbeing what is commonly My present invention is an improvement known as atripregister, and is capable of 50 more especially in fare-registeringmachines; being reset or turned to zero at the end of each roo in theindications of the machine.

The second set of registering mechanism is a register for consecutivelyregistering the fares as received on a large number of trips, or partialtrips of the car or vehicle, and is what is'known as a general orpermanent register. It registers concurrently with the trip register,but is incapable of the resetting movements of said trip-register, sothat while the trip -register registers the fares for each trip only,the gene al registrr keeps a continuous count or tally of the fares fora large number of trips, and shows in the aggregate the fares registeredor tallied since the machine was started at zero or the starting point.

The third registering mechanism of the machine is a recordingarrangement, upon which a strip or band of paper or other suitablematerial is used, to be gradually fed forward and punched once for eachfare received simultaneously and concurrently with the operation of thetrip and general registers. This recording strip or band is so organizedthat it records separately the fares registered on each and every trip,whereby a permanent record of the fares received and recorded on eachtrip may be taken and preserved; and this is highly advantageous formany reasons, some of which are set forth in the patent to N. A. Ransom,granted September 26, 1882, No. 265,145, and others will hereinafterappear.

Inasmuch as at the beginning of each trip the trip register is startedanew, it will be obvious that its indications of the fares for thepreceding trip are lost or effaced by the setting to the zero orstarting point, while it is equally obvious, inasmuch as the generalregister tallies the fares consecutively and continuously, that alterseveral trips have been made there will be, as far as the trip andgeneral registers are concerned, no separate tally or count of the faresfor each trip preserved. By the use ofthe strip or band to beperforated, however, once for each fare taken, a permanent record of thefares for each trip is preserved, and it shows, of course, the number offares for each trip, and prevents in this way any serious manipulationof the machine to the conductors advantage whereby he may escapedetection of his fraud.

In the present machine there is also embodied a direction-indicator, orwhat is now commonly known as an up-and-down, to indicate upon the faceof the machine the direction of travel of the car or vehicle and to showin which direction of travel of the car the fares being registered aretaken.

My present invention may be said to constitute an improvement moreespecially upon the type of registers shown in United States LettersPatent No. 9,312, reissued July 20, 1880, No. 206,565, of July 30, 1878,and Nos. 226,626 and 265,145, dated, respectively, April 20, 1880, andSeptember 26,1882, all of which are owned by my assignee, The RailwayRegister Manufacturing Company, of Bull'alo, New York.

In the accompanying drawings, which show all my improvements as embodiedin the best way now known to mel'or registering p urposes, Figure 1 is afront view of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a similar view with thefaceplate of the machine removed and some of the parts broken away toexpose other parts beneath. Figure 3 is a similar view, with theface-plate and the dials of the trip and permanent registers removed toshow the parts beneath,and some ot'the parts being in section on theline 3 3 of Figs. 11. 12, 13, 19, and 20. Fig. 4 is a similar view, withstill other parts removed to show those beneath and some in section onthe line 4 4 of Figs. 11, 12, 1.3, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. 24, and32, to show them more clearly, and Fig. 5 is a similar view to show theparts next the base-plate ol" the machine. 6 is a view of a portion ofthe works of the machine, partly in section, showing more particularlythemain actuating-lever of the machine as drawn forward, asin the act offinishing a count or tally, and alter retracting the spacing-slide whichseparates the several counts or records of the recording band or strip.Figs. 'Zaud 8 are detached sectional views of a portion of the operatingconnections of the machineshowing more particularly the devices by whicha space dividing the count or tally of two trips is made upon therecording strip or band by the resetting mechanism. Fig. 9 is a viewshowing a portion ofthe zerostop mechanism, the pawl which prevents thetrip-register from being reset except in a backward direction, theconductoflslock, by which he may secure his machine from. operationwhile absent from the car, and a portion of the directioirindicator bywhich the movements of the zero-stop slide are controlled, the saidparts of the indicator mechanism being in section, and Fig. 10 is asimilar view, with the partsin a different position from that shown inFig. 9. Fig. 10, Sheet 13, is a view of the zero-stop slide detached.Fig. 11 is an end view of the direction-indicator, looking from theright-hand end of the machine, and Fig. 12 is a sectional viewtherethrough on the line 12 12 of Figs. 4, 10, and 11. Fig. 13 is abottom or edge view of the trip-registering portion ofthe machine, ofthe alarm, and ot' the directionindicator, the section being takenthrough the casing on the line l3 13 of Fig. 4. Fig. 14 isa bottom edgeview of the main actuating-lever on the line 14 14 of Fig. 5, showingmore particularly the rollers on the back of said lever, between whichone end of a pivot-lever, which actuates the recording devices, ismounted. Fig. 15 is a sectional view through a portion of the machine onthe line 15 15 of Fig. 4, showing more particularly the lever and thespacingslide for feeding the recording strip or band, the lug on themain actuating-lever, which projects through a slot in the back plate ofthe casing, being also shown as connected with an actuating strap orred. by which the machine is operated from all parts of the car orvehicle where a fare may be taken. Fig. 16 isa sectional view throughthe main actuating ratchet or toothed wheel, and the setback devicesconnected therewith, the section being taken on the line 16 16 of Fig.6. Fig. 17 is asimilar section therethrough, with the partsin adifferentposition from that depicted in Fig. 16, the section being taken on theline 17 17 of Fig. 7. Fig. 18 isaview of a portion of the strip or bandto be used with the recording devices, said band being shown as punched,and representing the count or tally for fares received on several tripsof the car or vehicle, and Fig. 18, Sheet 13, is a pen spective View ofthe endless recording strip or band, showing the preferred form thereof.Fig. 19 is a horizontal section through the casing ofthe machine at thepoint where it is provided with the perforating or punch'recordingdevices, the plane of section being taken on the line 19 19 of Fig. 1,and showing a bottom View of said recording device and also showing thebolt-and-lever arrangement by which the machine is locked in place inthe car or vehicle, and also showing the locking devices of the cover ordoor of the machine, through which access is had to said recordingdevices, said door or cover being shown in dotted lines as swung open,and Figs. 19, Sheet 9, and 19 Sheet 13, are views of the locking andsealing devices of said door or cover through which access is had to themachine,said last-mentioned figure showing more particularly the springlocking arrangement. Fig. 20 is a section through the recordingdevices,showing a bottom plan view of a portion of said devices, ahinged gate or frame which carries the secondary feed-roller of said devices being removed. Fig. 21 is an end view, looking from the right-handside of the ma chine, of the punch arrangement of the recording devicesof the machine. Fig. 22 is an end view of the backward and forwardmovable strip or band carrier, showing more particularly the details ofconstruction of said carrier, looking from the right hand end of themachine, a bottom view of said band-carrier being shown, also, in Fig.20. Fig. 23 is a section through said bandearrier and a portion of itsframe on the line 23 23 of Fig. 20, showing a View of said carrier fromthe end opposite that shown in Fig. 22. Fig. 24 is a section through thebase-plate and post projecting forward therefrom on which the bell ismounted and around whichit is adjustable, and on which thehundreds-wheel of the trip-register with its carrying devices is alsomounted above the bell, the section being taken on the line 24 24 ofFig. 3. Fig. 25 is a section through the baseplate and post projectingforward therefrom on which the actuating-lever is pivoted and thetens-wheel of the trip-register and its carrying devices mounted, thesection being taken on the line 25 25 of Fig. 3. Fig. 26 is a view ofthe set back key. Fig. 27 is a view ofthe key which operates the lock ofthe door covering the strip or band recording devices. Fig. 28 is a viewof the key which operates the lock by which the conductor is enabled tolock his machine against actuation and then restore it to its firstcondition, said lock being located in this example at the upperrighthand corner of the machine. Fig. 29 is a View in elevation of a keyfor shifting the direction-indicator or up-and-down of the machine, andFig. 30 is a bottom plan thereof, showing the toothed recess in the endof the key for engaging with a pinion that shifts saiddirection-indicator. Fig. 31 is a View of the inside of the face-plateand attached parts of the ma chine upside down, or turned over, showingmore particularly the manner of securing the glass or transparent paneswhich cover the several inspection-openings in said faceplate, andshowing,also,the obscuring slide or plate by which the figures on thegeneral-register dials may be hid from inspection or be left exposed,and showing, also, the manner of hinging and locking the bottom plate ofthe casing enclosing the recording devices, as well as the doorthereof'opening at right angles to said hinged bottom plate, the rearface of the lock for securing these hinged portions of the casing beingclearly shown. (In this figure the casing is upside down as it would beif removed from the machine and then turned over in an upward direction,or as ifit swung back on a hinge.) Fig. 32 is a section through thecasing on the line 32 32 ofFigs. 1 and 31, showing more particularly themanner of fastening the glass in place in the cats ing, the obscuringslide of the general register, the way of locking the hinged bottom ofsaid casing, and the lever for operating the slide which locks themachine in position in the car or vehicle. Fig. 33 is a section throughthe casing on the line 33 33 of Fig. 1, showing the plate for securingthe glass panes which cover the inspection-openings in the casing inposition. Fig. 34 is a section on the line 34 34 of Fig. 31, through aportion of the casing and hinged door thereof, showing the pivotedslotted bolt for locking the hinged bottom and the key-lock for lockingthe hinged door in place. Fig. is a section through the glass windowcovering the direction-indicator or up-and-down, showing the glass asheld in the seat in its frame at one edge by a fixed groove, and at theother by the bent edge of the glasssecuring plate which is common to theseveral windows of the machine.

The casing of the machine is preferably ob long and of comparativelyshallow depth, to accommodate the mechanism as organized in the presentinstance. This casing consists of a back or base plate, A, and of afrontor face plate, B, the sides or ends and top and bottom IIO of the casingbeing preferably formed integral with the face-p1ate,of stout sheetmetal. Said plate B is securely fastened to the back plate, A, by meansof lugs Z),formed on the inner face of the sides of the face-plate B,which are provided with threaded perforations to receive screwsa,passing through suitable holes in the back plate. This aifordsa readyand convenient way of constructing and of securing the parts of thecasing together, and this casing constitutes an inclosing chamber orrecepta cle for the various ope 'ative parts of the mechanism of themachine, as will be hereinafter fully described. Of course the casingmay be constructed in other ways.

Projecting forward from the back plate, A, is a fixed or rigid post, 0,which constitutes the axis of the units-wheel of the trip or temporaryregister. Mounted upon this post,iiext the base-plate, and so as to turnaround said post,is the main actuating-wheel D of themachine. Said mainactuatingwheel D is provided at its periphery with, in this instance,ten notches, (Z, which form a like number of teeth, (1. Forming part ofand rigidly at tached to the rear surface of this main actuating-wheel Dis a gear-wheel, D, concentric with said wheel D, while upon the frontsur face of said actuatingwheel D is likewise rigidly attached aratchet-wheel, D-, theteeth of which point in the same direction asthose of the wheel I). Said gear-wheel D meshes with a correspondingwheel,E, journaled upon the base-plate A, and this wheel E in turnmeshes with a gear-wheel, E, which is the actuating-wheel of thegeneral-register train of counting-wheels,as will be hereinafter morefuliy described. It will thus be seen that the two sets of registeringdevices, to wit, the trip register and the general register,are actuatedby the movement of the main actuating-wheel D of the machine. Said mainactuatingwheel, as above stated, is provided on its front face with aconcentric ratchet-wheel, D and with the teeth of this lastmentionedwheel a pawl, d pivoted upon the back of a projection or plate, D, isadapted to engage, so as to prcvent the forward rotation of the turningsleeve D, which carries said projection or plate D, while permittingsaid sleeve D to be turned backward independently of said mainactuating-wheel D, as when the trip-register is to be reset. (See Figs.4, 6, 7, and 8.) Said sleeve D is mounted upon and so as to turn aroundthe post 0 in front of the main actuatingwheel D and its ratchet-wheel DSaid sleeve D is held in proper position upon the post 0 by means of aset-screw, d, passing through the sleeve and entering a circumferentialgroove, 0, in said post. Said sleeve D" carries near its forward end awheel, D having a driving-tooth, d, inits periphery,and upon the rearface of said wheel D is firmly fixed a circular band or annulus, D",perforated or slotted with ten equidistant notches, (1 for a purpose tobe presently explained. Upon the extreme front end of said sleeve D theunits-disk D is mounted. This disk D is of large size, and the method ofmounting it upon the sleeve D is peculiar. The end of the sleeve atopposite sides is cut away so as to have converging sides, but is notcut away to such a degree as to intersect the opening or here of thesleeve, and these sloping cut-away sides are dovetailed or undercut atthe edges, as at cl. (See Figs. 2, 3, 16, and 17.) A central slot oropening, (I is formed in the disk D corresponding in shape to but longerthan the cut-away end of the sleeve D, and its side walls are preferablybeveled, as shown in Fig. 2.

In applying the disk to the sleeve the disk is placed over thedovetailed locking end of the sleeve by means of the larger end of theslot (Z and the disk is then moved lengthwise of its slot on saidsleeve, so as .to engage or iiiterlock the beveled sides of the diskwith the dovetailed or undercut edges of the sleeve, as clearly shown inFig. 2, whereby it will be obvious that the disk cannot be withdrawn ormoved off endwise from the sleeve unless the disk be moved so as tobring the dovetailed end of the sleeve within the larger part of theslot in the disk, and out of locking engagement with the walls thereof.\Vhen the disk has been applied to the sleeve and engaged with itsdovetailed locking sides, I pass asctscrew, (Z for instance, through abent lip, d, of the disk into a screw-hole in the sleeve, as clearlyshown in Figs. 2 and 3, so as to prevent movement of the disk upon thesleeve.

Any other locking device in place of the screw may be used.

This means of attaching a counting-wheel or disk to a sleeve or shaft isvery advantageous, in that it permits the disk to be readily applied tothe sleeve or shalt and readily removed when repairs are necessary tothe ma chine, while when in its operative position upon the sleeve it issecurely fastened thereto by a firm and positive driving connection.Heretofore the disks have been detachably applied to their sleeves orshaft-s by means of screw-fastenings, &c.; but they are objectionablefor several reasons, fully known to those skilled in the art ofconstructing and rcpairing registering machines, and need not bementioned here by me.

I11 order to form a driving-connection between the main actuating-wheelD and the sleeve D, which carries the units-disk D of the trip-register,so that when said actuatingwheel is operated it will also positivelyoperate said disk, I provide in this instance a lever, D which ispivoted between ears or lugs of a recessed portion of the projection orplate D on said sleeve, and has a rearwardlyprojecting end, d. Saidlever D is acted upon by a spring, (1, the tendency of which is to throwor keep the end d 01' the lever in I engagement with one of a seriesoften depressions or recesses, d, formed in the front face of the mainactuating-wheel at equal distances apart. (See Figs. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 16,and

17.) The said lever D has the capacity of rocking backward and forwardon the sleeve D relatively to the main actuating-wheel D, but it isfixed as againstlateral movement rel atively to said sleeve D" whichcarries it, whereby, when said lever is engaged with one of the notchesof the main actuating-wheel, the two are coupled together, so that therotation of the main drivingwheel about its axis also rotates or drivesthe sleeve D, and consequently the trip-disk Dflcarried by it.

Further functions of the lever I) will hereinafter appear.

Mounted so as to turn freely upon a fixed or rigid post, F, and next thebase-plate A of the machine, is the inner end of a main actuatinglever,G, by which the machine is operated in registering or tallying fares.This lever is preferably a curved or bent lever,to economize space andaccommodate the parts of the ma chine as organized in this example of myimprovements. The inner or hub end of said actuating-lever is mountedupon an enlargement of the post F. In front of said lever a sleeve, F,surrounds said post F, and is fixed thereon so as to be detachable,while rigid against turning movements when in place by means of aprojecting pin or lug, f, which enters a pit or recess formed in theface of a shoulder or annular enlargement, f, of said post. (See Figs. 5and 25.) The sleeve F is locked to the post F as against endwisemovement by means of a headed screw,f ,which is screwed into a threadedopening in the front end of the post, as clearly shown in Figs. 2, 3,and 25, the head of the screw f fitting a countersink in the front endof said sleeve. This sleeve F is readily detachable when the machine isto be taken apart, while, when in place, it constitutes an axis uponwhich a sleeve, F is mounted, and turns without danger of being turnedor moved by the movement of the main actuating-lever about the inner endof the post as an axis. The periphery of the sleeve F at its lower endis enlarged and tapered, as at f and forms a seat for the enlarged ortapered mouth of the rear end of the sleeve F whereby it will be seenthat while the sleeve F is free to turn about the fixed sleeve F as anaxis when driven in the counting operation hereinafter described, stillit is not interfered with by the movements of the main actuating-leverabout its axis. The sleeve F is secured upon the fixed sleeve F, so asto be kept in place thereon while free to turn or revolve by means of ascrew, f", pass ing through said sleeve F and engaging at its inner endwith an annular groove,f in said fixed sleeve. Said turning sleeve Fcarries near its front end a driving-wheel, F, substantially similar tothe driving-wheel D of the units-disk, and at its extreme front end isprovided with a detachable dovetailed or interlocking connection for thetens-disk F of the trip-register, substantially like that before fullydescribed in connection with the sleeve and units-disk of thetrip-register. In this instance, however, there is no necessity, afterthe tens-disk has been. applied to the locking end of the sleeve, ofpassing a screw through a bent lip of said dish laterally into thesleeve, as the headed screw (1 may be passed into a screw-hole in thefront end of the sleeve, so as to bear upon a fiat lip, f, of thetens-disk, or so as to lie between such a lip and a shoulder orshoulders, of the cut-away end of the sleeve. (See Figs. 2 and 3.)

Mounted upon a fixed or rigid post, H, projecting from the base-plate ofthe machine, and supported with its concave surface toward said backplate, but not in contact therewith, is a bell, H, having a centralopening through which a reduced portion of said post H extends. Theedges of the bell around its central opening rest upon an annularshoulder, it, formed by reducing the front end of the post H, and thebell is held against said shoulder by means of a sleeve, H passed onover the front end of the post and held thereon as against en dwisemovement by means of a headed screw, h, screwed into a screw-threadedopening in the front end of the post. The head of the screw fits acountersink in the end of the sleeve H as clearly shown in Fig. 24. Saidsleeve H is prevented from turning about the post H as an axis by meansof a recess or pit, if, in its inner end, which receives a pin, it,projecting forward from the annular shoulder h of said post. passesthrough one of the series of holes h, formed in the bell concentricallywith its axispost H. (See Figs. 4, 5, and 24.) By this means it will beseen that the bell can be shifted about its axis, while when adjusted itis rigidly locked as against either turning or endwise movement, andthis is very advantageous, in that when the bell is worn or in any wiseinjured by repeated blows of the hammer on the same spot, or there existdefects in the bell upon or near its edge at any point, it can bereadily shifted to present a new surface to receive the blows of theham- In front of the bell H, and mounted upon the fixed sleeve H so asto turn about it as an axis, is a sleeve, H said sleeve at its rear endhaving a tapered mouth to fit a tapered enlargement, ha, of said sleeveH, (see Fig. 2A,) and said sleeve H is looked upon the fixed sleeve,while free to revolve thereon, by means of a screw, h, passed throughthe sleeve with its inner end engaging a circumferential groove, h inthe said fixed sleeve. Said turning sleeve H carries a notcheddrivingwheel, H*, and on the extreme front end of said sleeve there is asliding detachable interlocking connection between the sleeve and ahundredsdisk, H, of the trip-register, substantially similar to thatbefore described. There is also an annulus or rim, H connected to therear face of said driving-wheel H, corresponding to the annuluses of thedrivingwheels of the units and tens disks. In the present example theposts 0, F, and H, on

This pin h also IIO which the trip-register disks are mounted or aboutwhich they turn, are in a line across the machine, and said disks areprovided upon their front faces with figures or numerals, one of whichon each disk, as usual, is visible through a window or openings in theface-plate B.

In order to employ dials with large figures, the advantages of which areobvious, without enlarging the machine too much, and to bring the numberon each disk which is to show through the front plate of the casing nearthe center of the machine, so as to enable the indications ofthe machineto be easily read and distinctly perceived from all parts of the car orvehicle, I have devised a way of organizing the trip-register disks andof lettering or numbering them, which I will now describe. The saidunits-disk D, tens-disk F", and hundreds-disk H are each ofcon'iparatively large size. In my organization the central or tens disk,F, is overlapped by both the units-disk D and hundredsdisk H as clearlyshown in Figs. 1, 2, and 13. This brings the disks close together, whilestill exposing a comparatively large space on the face of the tens-diskF* above the center of the machine, and between the edges of the unitsand hundreds disks on each side thereof. The numbers on the tens-diskare from 1 to 0, inclusive, and the figures are painted, printed, orotherwise placed on the face of the disk radially, as has heretoforebeen usual. Not so, however, with the units and hundreds dials. Thefigures or numerals on these dials, instead of being the usual radialfigures, lie around the edge of the disks at an angle to the radiusthereof, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2that is to say, the numbers donot lie in the same plane as radial lines. These numbers, like thenumbers of the tensdisk, are from 1 to O, inclusive.

By organizing the disks as described, it will be seen that when thenumbers of the disks are brought opposite a window, B, in the face plateof the casing, the exposed numbers will be vertical on all the disks andwill be close together, so as to be distinctly seen and read with easethrough a comparatively small window. (See Fig. 1.) \Vere the numbers onthe units and hundreds dials in a plane with the radius, like those ofthe tens-disk, the nu mbers would not be vertical when opposite saidwindow B, but would lie at an angle to the number of the central disk,and the indication would not be plain and easily read. The radial numberon the tens-disk only would be in the right position relatively to theface-plate of the casing to be properly exposed. By doing away with thisangular arrangement of the numbers on the units and hundreds dials, thevertical numbers would be widely separated, as has heretofore been thecase, and a longer window or a separate window for each disk would haveto be employed, and this with the disadvantage attendant upon a wideseparation of the figures exposed to view. It will thus numbers thereonwithout materially enlarging the machine, and that at the same time theexposed figures indicating the count or tally are close together.

By the organization I have described I also am enabled to employ a verylarge bell, whereby a distinct alarm is given when the register isoperated. The bell being mounted upon one of the posts around which oneof the disks turns, permits this without interfering with the operationof the disk, as has heretofore been explained. The bell-hammer I is apivoted hammer, as usual in this class of machines, and is thrownagainst the edge of the bell by a spring, I, placed under tension whenthe hammer is moved away from the bell, so that when the ham mer-leveris released it is thrown with considerable force against the edge of thebell to sound an alarm. The bell-hammer lever is a double-armed lever,the short arm 1' of which is shaped on its end somewhat like a pawl, andengages with the periphery of the main actuating-wheel I) of themachine. \Vhen said actuating-wheel is rotated, the successive teeth (1of said wheel act upon the short arm of thelever, and, rocking saidlever on its pivot, carries the hammer end away from the bell. As themove ment of the main actuating-wheel is about completed, the toothwhich raised the hammer against the force of its spring passes beyondthe end of the lever and allows it to spring down into the notchimmediately following said tooth, and consequently also permits thehammer end of the lever to be thrown against the bell to sound thealarm. The notches d of the main actuating-wheel D are peculiar that is,they are not ordinary ratehetnotches, but the notches have anenlargement or supplemental notch, d clearly shown in Figs. 3, 1-, 6, 7,and 8, the purpose of which will presently be explained.

I have heretofore stated that the main ac tuating-whecl D of the machineis geared with a gear-wheel, E, of the general register train. Thistrain of wheels E E E E is a wellknown construction, operatingpreferably on the well-known Geneva stop principle. The first wheel isthe units-wheel, and on each complete rotation thereof it turns the nextor tens wheel one point, and at each complete rotation of saidtens-wheel the hundreds wheel is turned one point, and the next wheel isoperated by the hundreds wheel to register thousandsin the same way. Ihave shown in this example the numbered disks of the general-registertrain as detachably mounted upon their carrying sleeves or shafts bymeans of my improved detachable interlocking connection, hereinbeforedescribed. This general register, it will be obvious, is capable ofregistering a large number of fares, its capacity lacking one oftenthousand in this example; butits capacity may beinereased or diminishedas circumstances require. The

, driving gear-wheel E of the general register be seen that I employlarger disks and larger is rotated step by step corrcspondently with IOOthe intermittent rotation of the main actuating-wheel D, and the tripand general registers register or tally concurrently and simultaneously,so that one register constitutes a check upon the other, and at the sametime it will also be obvious that the alarm will be sounded once foreach actuation of said registers. This consecutive intermittentactuation of the trip and general registers and simultaneous sounding ofthe alarm is accomplished in this example by a single driving oractuating pawl, G, carried by the main actuatinglever G of the machine;This pawl is pivoted to the front surface of the actuating-lever G inthis example, and is acted upon by a spring, 9, to keep it in contactwith the periphery of the main actuating-wheel D. (See Figs. 3, 4t, and6.) Likewise a comparatively stiff spring, G acts on theactuating-lever, so as to keep it in a normal position, as shown inFigs. 3 and 4, with the driving. end of its drivingpawl Gin contact withthe abrupt end of one of the teeth of the actuating-wheel D. The springG also returns the lever to its normal position when the actuatingmovement is completed.

On the rear surface of the actuatinglever G, near its upper end, is alug or actuating projection, 9 which extends through the back or baseplate of the casing to constitute a means for rocking or vibrating thelever about its pivot to actuate the machine This actuatinglug 9 travelsin a curved slot, 9, in the baseplate of the casing, and on the back ofsaid base-plate is fitted with a thin plate, 9, Figs. 5, 14, and 15, totravel with it. This plate should be large enough to cover the slot inthe back plate of the machine, and also stiff enough to constitute aguide and support for the lever at the outside of the machine, wherebythe up per end of the lever is retained in place, while permitted toslide freely, and, as it is fitted nicely at its inner end to the postabout which it turns, steady and true movement of the lever is insuredin the operation of the machine and all loose movement avoided. Noaccess can be had through the slot at the back of the casing tomanipulate the instrument, as the plate prevents this. A bell-cranklever (not necessary to be shown, as it is a wellknown instrumentalityfor the purpose) will be connected at one end to the actuating-lug g andat the other to a strap or rod, G, extending through the car, so as toenable the register to be operated from any part of the car in which afare may be taken, my improved register in this instance being what isknown as a stationary registerthat is, one de signed to be securelyfastened in place in the car or vehicle, at one end thereof, in fullview of the passengers. Instead of an intermediate connection orbell-crank, the strap or rod may be connected directly with theactuating projection g of the main actuating-lever, as shown in Fig. 15.When a fare is taken, the strap or rod is operatedthat is, pulled orturned and the main actuating-lever G caused to move upward on itspivot. This movement causes the driving-pawl G, by engagement with oneof the teeth of the actuating-wheel D, to turn said wheel partiallyaround, (one tooth, or the distance of one notch in this example,) andthis movement of said wheel is imparted to the units-disk of thetrip-register, and by the gear-connection to the general register, andthese registers show that an additional fare has been registered. Asbefore said, the bell is struck for each fare registered on the trip andgeneral registers. As soon as the actuating force is removed, the leverG is returned to its normal position in readiness for a new actuationwhich is to increase the count or tally.

In order to compel a full movement of the actuating-lever G in bothdirections of its movement, so as to prevent the sounding of a a falsealarm-that is, the sounding of an alarm without registering-I apply tothe curved edge of the actuating-lever my doubleratehet arrangement Iacted upon by a shiftingpawl, I. This arrangement is fully described inLetters Patent of the United States heretofore granted to me, ReissueNo. 6,929, dated February 15, 1876, and need not therefore beparticularly described in detail here.

In order to prevent the main actuatingwheel D, and consequently theunits-wheels of the trip and general registers, from being carried morethan the proper distance, or one point on the dials, by a sudden orexcessive pull upon the actuating-lever G, I have provided said leverwith a shoulder. extension, or projection, 9 which, when the leverapproaches the end of its actuating movement and reaches it, will engageor come in contact with the edge of the next tooth of saidactuating-wheel, back of the tooth thereof, upon which the driving-pawlG has just operated, and will thereby positively stop the movementof theactuating-wheel and prevent it from moving more than the proper orrequired distance to show a new number at the windows of the register.This action is seen at Fig. 6. This positive stop is effective not onlyto positively limit the movement of the main actuating-wheel whilecounting, but also to insure a distinct blow upon the bell, inasmuch asthe main actuating-wheel cannot be carried so far as, when the hammer istripped, to cause its short end i, which engages the wheel, to strike,say, half-way up the incline of the succeeding tooth. The short arm ofthe hammer-lever is caused to drop squarely down into the deepest partof the notch, for it is tripped just as the movement of the mainactuating-wheel is positively stopped. \Vhen, however, there is wear ofthe shoulder g of the actuatinglever, or of the teeth of theactuating-wheel, a defect may exist in the blow delivered from the causeabove explained; but this I have provided for and avoided by making thenotches d in the main actuating-whee1 D with the supplemental notch orextension d, before mentioned. It will be obvious that, even if wearoccurs between the parts so as to

